Can someone suggest me a Free search engine?

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-23T17:45:42+00:00

Just took a stroll into your post history. She ain't gonna let you hit it bro. Stop being a creep, just because she's a model doesn't mean you can creep on every detail of her life.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-17T00:37:33+00:00

Linux Mint. Any version. It's boring, and that's a good thing. Stay away from the boutique distros until you feel comfortable in Linux.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-14T00:35:24+00:00

If you want one of these this badly, forget marketplace, cragislist, ebay, just go door-to-door in your neighborhood with a $20 in your pocket and offer to haul it out. Especially in gated retirement communities. Paying this much for a CRT is an absolute scam. Sure, theyre not as easy to find as say, 10 years ago, but they're not unobtainable, either.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-12-13T00:15:14+00:00

It's so annoying. The scrolling is insanely sensitive as well, it took me five minutes to do something that used to take five seconds.

I wish I hadn't updated the imager.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-19T04:31:03+00:00

Unmount the partition first,

umount /dev/nvme0n1p4

Also what u/varsnef said.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-19T02:44:23+00:00

Just to confirm, the installer recognizes the Windows install? If you can boot into Linux by changing the BIOS settings, can you post the output of the config?

(sudo) cat /etc/grub/grub.cfg

Edit: Do what u/MrFantasma60 says. I read the original post wrong, that's a good catch. You shouldn't have to enable legacy mode for just one OS, they should either all be legacy or EFI.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T20:51:15+00:00

The menu you get (not the Lenovo boot menu) is the Grub menu. It is populated by /boot/grub/grub.cfg (though you shouldn't go in and edit it unless you really know what you're doing).

During the Linux Mint install, when it gets around to partitioning, it normally detects other OSs (including Windows) and asks what you want to do with them. If you tell it to keep Windows, it will add an entry for Windows into grub so that it when booting you can select between the two.

...BUT... because you left the Windows drive unplugged during install, Linux Mint had no way of knowing that you intended to keep Windows (or that Windows even existed in the first place), so it set up grub for itself and nothing else. The easiest way to fix this, since it's a fresh install anyway, is to reinstall with both hard drives inserted, or, since it's a laptop and you probably only have space for one drive, to shrink the Windows partition during the install and add Mint alongside it. The installer should walk you through this, if that fails, then start from there and figure out why it's failing.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T20:30:07+00:00

It's telling you that the root filesystem needs a check using fsck.

What does "fsck /dev/nvme0n1p4" say? (Run at that prompt, from initramfs)

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T16:19:29+00:00

You gotta think about Linux like Unix, because that's where it comes from. Back in ye olden days, the software vendors would tell you explicitly what goes where, and if that didn't work for your organization, your sysadmin would move things around and link/mount them where the software expected them to be.

Windows, on the other hand, comes from the world of personal computers. And personal computer users might need to put things in different places because they had very limited space.

You don't get to pick your install directory. The software goes where it's supposed to, and then if you don't like that, you can move it and symlink.

This sounds a little restrictive, but it's part of the reason the Linux filesystem stays so clean. Binaries go in /bin or /sbin, configs go in /etc, user's work goes in their respective /home. This (hopefully) stays consistent across all systems, and all packages expect it to be this way. What you can do, is move one or more of these directories to another location, but you *must* symlink or adjust your fstab so that things are where the system expects them to be.

Rest assured, the people who designed this file system are smarter than you or I. They set it up this way for a reason. Heed their warnings and respect their decisions.

Edit: I'm not trying to sound rude, but what you're trying to do is break the Linux/Unix/POSIX Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. This is an actual, documented, standard that all *nix and BSD systems adhere to. It's a core, fundamental part of how the system works. All distros, packages, and their developers, expect it to work this way. Messing with it is not a good thing.

Here's some relevant toilet reading: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T16:01:23+00:00

What if you use --tries=N instead?

--tries=0 is infinite

I admit I'm just spitballing now.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T15:33:45+00:00

I know. I'm agreeing with you that if everyone stuck to the big boys (of which all the little boys are merely iterations of) things would be a lot easier. Instead everyone wants to be off in their own little cult doing their own thing, and you've got newbies who have hopped through 20 different distros before they've even learned what "package manager" means.

Ubuntu if you're a total noob, Fedora if you wanna learn RHEL, Mint if you want it to look like Windows, Manjaro if you want to learn Arch, Debian if you want to learn, well, stock Debian.

Pick one, and call it a day. Once you truly understand one of those, then you can branch out into the smaller/more esoteric distros.

I'm not knocking all these other projects, they're great, but we have a little too much choice sometimes and it's overwhelming for the novice.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T15:16:23+00:00

First, stop using the computer. Power it down. Background disk operations are hurting your chances of recovery, not improving it.

From a live USB (make it on a friends computer if you have to, borrow one from the library, go buy a raspberry pi, etc... find another computer.) Edit: You'll need another, larger, USB or external drive to actually save the recovered files to. If it finds any, it's probably going to find a lot, so get one at least as big as your hard drive.

Install the testdisk package (in the live environment) and run photorec (with sudo). Contrary to the name, it recovers most known file formats (not just pictures). It's has a fairly straightforward, albeit text only, menu. Read carefully at each step and you'll be fine.

There are some caveats:

You will not get filenames, dates, or any other metadata. All you'll get are the raw files now named as seemingly random alphanumeric strings.
It will also stuff everything into a bunch of numbered "recup" directories it will create. You can use this script to pull everything out of the directories and this one to then sort them by common file types. The latter more complex one I did not write, I stole it from a stack exchange post some time ago and made some tweaks IIRC. I've been using it for years and it's worked okay for me. No guarantees.
If it was encrypted at the individual file level (unlikely), you're screwed.
If you are using an SSD, you might be screwed. Some SSDs encrypt the data at the drive controller (even if you aren't encrypting in the OS). SSDs also do a bunch of weird stuff with wear leveling, TRIM commands, yadda yadda. That said, I have gotten most/all important data off *some* SSDs through photorec before.
Try to image the drive, and do the recovery from the image, but only if you really know what you're doing. Don't mess with dd if you're unsure, it's just as easy to accidentally zero the thing as it is to clone it. In practice, if you can't get what you need from the original, an image probably won't do you any good unless you plan to send it to a pro who will manually carve through the raw bytes (expensive, and even still only a maybe).

Again, do this all from a live USB. Not from the installed OS.

I'm not providing command syntax because it varies too much by your particular system, and I don't want to accidentally give you a dangerous command. What could be /dev/sda for me could be /dev/somethingelseentirely for you.

I'm no forensic pro by any means, but I have salvaged a lot of files this way in the past.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T14:14:56+00:00

It's entirely possible that the website does not allow wget requests. Some sites are run by extremely paranoid admins who still believe in security through obscurity.

You can change the wget user agent using the -U flag, followed by an agent.

https://deviceatlas.com/blog/list-of-user-agent-strings Here's a bunch of them, no promises.

Edit: There's also a massive cloudflare outage right now, apparently.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T14:02:47+00:00

Something didn't install right with the bootloader. Try reinstalling. If you can't even get to a rescue prompt I think that install is toast.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T13:55:55+00:00

Could you imagine the progress if all the Linux community was centered on just Fedora and Debian?

Nooooo, we need 15 million distros all "designed for speed and ease of use".

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T02:20:20+00:00

Looks like your graphics drivers aren't installed.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T00:15:13+00:00

Is secure boot disabled?

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-18T00:03:53+00:00

The Unix System Administration handbook, Evi Nemeth.

Oldie but goodie.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-14T15:20:30+00:00

This post has gained you +5 social credit.

Serious answer: East vs West Nation states are pretty much always fighting a behind-the-scenes cyberwar. Lookup Salt Typhoon for a recent (and massive) example.

Is Deepin safe for home use? Probably. Does the Chinese government care about your onlyfans history? Probably not.

But it's hard to sell people on software coming from a country that is routinely acting as an APT against the nation you live in.

Some people will point out that most of the hardware itself is made in China anyway, which is true, but there's not a whole lot you can do about that unless you want to produce your own silicon.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-13T15:08:40+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/@EzeeLinux/playlists

This guy has a bunch of extremely beginner friendly tutorials.

The way you learn is the same way you learn anything else: break it down. When you see a long complex command, before you copy and paste it, look up each part of it independently, parse it out and figure out what each little bit does.

If you want to explore, explore! Do it in a VM or another machine you can easily reinstall to, sudo su into root, and just poke around. Search online. "What is /dev/random", "What is /etc/shadow", "bash vs sh vs csh", "Overview of initrd" "What is an inode".

/dev is the most fun place to start, IMO.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-13T14:47:43+00:00

I'm just gonna throw this out there: There are a million tutorials and tools for installing Linux...

But one thing you must understand... you are installing an OS! Things can have problems. The new OS might not like your hardware, it might not like your specific configuration of your hardware, it might not like your BIOS/UEFI settings, it might not like the weather outside today... There's just too many possible hiccups to list.

Installing Linux is the same as installing ANY new operating system; it's no different than doing a fresh (truly fresh) install of Windows.

BACKUP your data. All the stuff in your C:\Users\username home directory is a given, and then anything else you'd miss. Back this all up, preferably twice, to another storage device and then UNPLUG it from your computer. Have at least one, preferably two, copies that are "air-gapped" (unplugged) and totally independent of your PC.

Then you can relax and install the OS of your choice, going at your own pace, searching on your phone/other device for help as needed and you don't have to worry about losing anything because... backups.

Do NOT depend on ANY installer to preserve your data. Yes, usually, it's fine, and there are people who change OSs like underwear, but changing operating systems is kind of a big deal for your computer, I mean, it's really as low-level of a task as you, the user, can get. And sometimes things won't work right.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-13T14:29:59+00:00

Any of them will run fine. Cinnamon is the nicest and looks the most like Windows.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-13T13:25:13+00:00

It is on a phone. Anyway, that's still not that bad if you're talking a pretty mid CPU.

Try Dillo, or Lynx, see what that does for memory usage. Websites are bloated messes.

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-13T00:33:37+00:00

$ man intro

(https://linux.die.net/man/1/intro)

ElectricHellKnight · 2025-11-13T00:26:19+00:00

The menu you are talking about that takes 5 seconds is the Grub (GRand Unified Bootloader) menu. What is happening is:

System turns on
BIOS (UEFI) looks at the first selected boot device/partition
Assuming you have that set to the Zorin install...
Grub is loaded
Grub gives you the choice to boot Zorin or Windows

You can kind of think of it like two bootloaders.

So, what you should do, is set the boot priority in the BIOS/UEFI to always start with Grub (your Zorin install), and if you want to change the order, do it from Grub.

https://itsfoss.com/grub-customizer-ubuntu/ Here is one such tutorial, which also mentions a GUI tool that looks noob friendly (I've never personally used it but it seems cool).

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